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I hope this is the right place to post this… We are in RCIA and have been attending Mass at our local parish. When we first went, we really expected something similar to what we see daily on EWTN. However, it’s nothing like it, and we are getting really discouraged.
The music has a very folksy feel to it, complete with someone strumming a guitar. The altar servers just wear white robes with jeans and sneakers…the whole atmosphere is almost too laid back. So much so that some people even ignore the tablernacle. I love to sing, and so I sat in on one of the choir practices. One of the songs had rain in the title and the director said, “Oh good! I need to bring my rain stick!” I did a double take and had to snap my mouth shut. A rain stick? At Mass? And even though things are laid back, the service is so rushed! It’s almost like parts overlap because they are going so fast.
Combine that with the RCIA instruction we are getting…and we are feeling kind of down.
In our area there are other parishes, which we haven’t tried yet, but we are not holding out too much hope as the same priests and deacon serve them all.
I’m sorry-I guess this really has no point except to allow me to vent a little about something that has discouraged us, as we really have no one else with whom to discuss this. Maybe we’re making too big of a deal out of it.
Andrea
The music has a very folksy feel to it, complete with someone strumming a guitar. The altar servers just wear white robes with jeans and sneakers…the whole atmosphere is almost too laid back. So much so that some people even ignore the tablernacle. I love to sing, and so I sat in on one of the choir practices. One of the songs had rain in the title and the director said, “Oh good! I need to bring my rain stick!” I did a double take and had to snap my mouth shut. A rain stick? At Mass? And even though things are laid back, the service is so rushed! It’s almost like parts overlap because they are going so fast.
Combine that with the RCIA instruction we are getting…and we are feeling kind of down.
In our area there are other parishes, which we haven’t tried yet, but we are not holding out too much hope as the same priests and deacon serve them all.
I’m sorry-I guess this really has no point except to allow me to vent a little about something that has discouraged us, as we really have no one else with whom to discuss this. Maybe we’re making too big of a deal out of it.
Andrea
My confessor once gave me as a penance, the assgnment of not rolling my eyes nor in any way registering distaste when we are asked to sing appalling folky-rock guitar-and-tambourine “songs” instead of hymns during Mass.
